As a filmmaker shooting people at mealtime always provides me with some
easy to edit documentary scenes that say a lot. Here are two films and
three of my favorite scenes: - Richard

TAYLOR'S CAMPAIGN when the homeless gals are cooking up rice and beans
by the roadside and a United Parcel truck pulls up. One woman asks if
anyone is expecting a washing machine, but to their surprise and joy -
the UPS delivers a bunch of recyclable bottles to their shopping baskets.

TAYLOR'S CAMPAIGN: A musician from Lincoln, Nebraska who became
homeless in Santa Monica wanders up and down the promenade looking for
something to eat. He reaches into a trash bin and pulls out a plastic
cup with the remains of a Coffee Shake, peels back the lid, sniffs
inside to see if it is spoiled, and places it back into the trash.

GOING TO SCHOOL - IR A LA ESCUELA - In the corner of a special education
classroom, a 6th grade boy named Ruben Rodriguez is fed through a
G-tube into his stomach; the healtcare worker asks the boy who is seated
in a wheelchair whether he prefers the chocolate or banana beverage.
After the tube is removed a classmate named Eliana wheels up and asks
Ruben in both English and Spanish "Are you full?" ; making the boy smile.

Gary Handman wrote:

> Hi all:>> Well not trivia really (but sorta): I'm putting together a food in > the movies web page (and bibliography) for a course here on the > politics and culture of food (cool, eh?). Take a look > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/food. > <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/food.html>html>> <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/food.html>I know there's more...I > could use your help.>> Here are the ground rules:>> 1. Movie or scene must "say" something substantive about the > relationship of food/eating/cooking to race/ethnicity, gender, class, > sex, etc. etc. etc. The usual academic focuses...> 2. Movie must be available on video (because I'm relating this page > to stuff we own or can acquire)> 3. Give me a two to four line description of the movie or scene and > I'll put your name up in lights on the page.>> Bon appetite!> Gary Handman> Director> Media Resources Center> Moffitt Library> UC Berkeley> ghandman@library.berkeley.edu> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

As a filmmaker shooting people at mealtime always provides me with some easy
to edit documentary scenes that say a lot. Here are two films and three
of my favorite scenes: - Richard

TAYLOR'S CAMPAIGN when the homeless gals are cooking up rice and beans by
the roadside and a United Parcel truck pulls up. One woman asks if anyone
is expecting a washing machine, but to their surprise and joy - the UPS delivers
a bunch of recyclable bottles to their shopping baskets.

TAYLOR'S CAMPAIGN: A musician from Lincoln, Nebraska who became homeless
in Santa Monica wanders up and down the promenade looking for something to
eat. He reaches into a trash bin and pulls out a plastic cup with the remains
of a Coffee Shake, peels back the lid, sniffs inside to see if it is spoiled,
and places it back into the trash.

GOING TO SCHOOL - IR A LA ESCUELA - In the corner of a special education
classroom, a 6th grade boy named Ruben Rodriguez is fed through a G-tube
into his stomach; the healtcare worker asks the boy who is seated in a wheelchair
whether he prefers the chocolate or banana beverage. After the tube is removed
a classmate named Eliana wheels up and asks Ruben in both English and Spanish
"Are you full?" ; making the boy smile.

Gary Handman wrote:

Hi all:

Well not trivia really (but sorta): I'm putting together a food in the
movies web page (and bibliography) for a course here on the politics and
culture of food (cool, eh?). Take a look http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/food.html

I know there's more...I could use your help.

Here are the ground rules:

1. Movie or scene must "say" something substantive about the relationship
of food/eating/cooking to race/ethnicity, gender, class, sex, etc. etc.
etc. The usual academic focuses...
2. Movie must be available on video (because I'm relating this page to
stuff we own or can acquire)
3. Give me a two to four line description of the movie or scene and I'll
put your name up in lights on the page.